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Community Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and…
- Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
- No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond…
- The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
- Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for…
- I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
- Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
- Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
- Community is where humility and glory touch.
- People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal…
- Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
- Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study,…
- Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying…
- By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
- We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has…
More Community Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their… — Joe Baca
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
- You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher